Jay-Z Quotes - Page 6

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• You shared one of the most intimate things that ever happened to you - falling in love with someone who wasn't brave enough to love you back. Your relieving yourself of your 'secret' is as much about wanting to honestly connect as it is about exhibition. We are all made better by your decision to share publicly.

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  Falling In Love, Love You, Decision

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• And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils

  Jay-Z

  Evil

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.66, Random House Group

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• The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

  Jay-Z

  Life, Rap, Second Chance

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• I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

  Jay-Z

  Dream, Fighting, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

  Jay-Z

  Hot, Ends

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.171, Random House Group

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• Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist
  Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me
  It's less than likely,
  Move back,
  Let I breathe Jedi knight,
  The more space I get the better I write,
  (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write,
  I need the space to say whatever I like.

  Jay-Z

  Buddhist, Moving, Writing

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• I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

  Jay-Z

  Running, Men, Dodge

  Song: Brooklyn Go Hard

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• And through our travels we get separated, never forget:
  In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.

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  Regret, Rap, Order

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• I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.

  Jay-Z

  Mean, Umbrella, Drought

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• Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.70, Random House Group

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• By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

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  Song, Memories, Thinking

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• The most amazing feeling I feel
  Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real
  Maybe I paint the sky blue
  My greatest creation was you.

  Jay-Z

  Fathers Day, Dad, Real

  "Beyonce And Jay-Z Working On New Albums", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• As fate would have it, Jay's status appears
  To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye
  When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.

  Jay-Z

  Goodbye, Fate, Perfect

  Song: Encore vs Numb, Album: Collision Course

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• All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

  Jay-Z

  Rocks, Bullshit, Hip Hop

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

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  Country, Thinking, Talking

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• When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"

  Jay-Z

  People, Want, Firsts

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Night, Awards

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and were brilliant enough to make it happen. But then what? Drug addicts kill themselves trying to get that feeling they got from their first high, looking for an experience they'll never get again. In his suicide note, Cobain asked himself, "Why don't you just enjoy it?" and then answered, "I don't know!" It's amazing how much of a mindfuck success can be.

  Jay-Z

  Suicide, Drug, Feelings

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.117, Random House Group

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• Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

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  Writing, Men, Why Not

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• Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.

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  Song, Rap, Simple

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• I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

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  Personal Growth, Persons

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• I spring train in the winter, around early December...

  Jay-Z

  Spring, Winter, Rapper

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• Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

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  Growing Up, Phones, People

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• If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.

  Jay-Z

  Determination, Moving, Mean

  Interview with Adam Park, www.clashmusic.com. August 9, 2009.

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• For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.

  Jay-Z

  Crazy, America, Mind Blowing

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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